Historian Jason Colby on the History and Future of the Southern Resident Orcas - a podcast by Mark Leiren-Young | Oceans, orcas, eco-ethics and the environment.

Jason Colby (@jasoncolby2) author of Orca: How We Came to Know and Love the Ocean's Greatest Predator on the history of humanity's relationship with orcas - and his personal connection to the capture era.

“I refer to this sometimes as the unthinkable history of the Pacific North West.”

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Links:



* Why Tilikum, SeaWorld's Killer Orca, Was Infamous: https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/01/tilikum-seaworld-orca-killer-whale-dies/

* BC’s Pioneer Of Killer Whale Research: https://www.bcmag.ca/bcs-pioneer-of-killer-whale-research/

* Era of the Orca Cowboys: https://thetyee.ca/Life/2008/05/16/OrcaCowboys/

* From Machine Guns to Save-the-Whales: https://georgiastrait.org/2018/06/from-machine-guns-to-save-the-whales/

* They Shoot Orcas, Don’t They? File this under weird BC history. The harpooning of Moby Doll: https://thetyee.ca/Life/2008/05/13/ShootingOrcas/

* Sighting of rare giant basking shark in B.C. thrills scientists: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/sighting-of-rare-giant-basking-shark-in-b-c-thrills-scientists-1.3618708

* PBS: Interview with Ted Griffin: https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/whales/interviews/griffin.html

* YouTube: Breaching Basking Sharks | World's Weirdest: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsC61g36EqM

* YouTube: Ted Griffin taking a break while orca hunting in 1965: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7jcFR6xE_o



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